From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: mv macro set documentation - found!
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:43:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5E82A482-5B26-4523-887C-D6751A9A8ACC@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fh8ava$fkj$1@echo.ukshells.co.uk>
In my opinion, mv needs a whole lot of improvement - especially for
something dated 1980. Uriel's slides collection is more supreme; I
have yet to look at yours.
On Nov 11, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Darren Bane wrote:
> Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
>> Hello. I was noticing the Plan 9 Documentation Project needed info on
>> the mv macro set. Apparently, according to http://troff.org/
>> macros.html, a Rick Richardson (whose email address is on that page,
>> fortunately) gave me a pdf containing the original paper on mv. I
>> will be putting it in /n/sources/contrib/pietro later - but beware;
>> the pdf is humongous, and can choke page (or whatever pdf viewer you
>> use) - I suffered.
>
> Slightly off-topic, but future readers on Google Groups may be
> interested to know that I prefer the results from Russ Cox's macros
> in /n/sources/contrib/rsc/talk. Obviously other people's tastes will
> differ.
> --
> Darren Bane
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-12 1:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-11 2:51 [9fans] " Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-12 1:40 ` [9fans] " Darren Bane
2007-11-12 1:43 ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
2007-11-16 10:19 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-11-16 19:47 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-19 13:45 ` [plan9mod] " Douglas A. Gwyn
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